Suspect held in fatal shooting of man in wheelchair

A Crosby man is behind bars in connection with the June 22 slaying of a man in a wheelchair in northeast Harris County, officials said.

Derrick D. Williams (Harris County SO)

Derrick Demond Williams, 25, turned himself in on Monday and was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Detectives are withholding the name of the victim, who died at Ben Taub Hospital. A woman who also was shot is expected to recover from her injuries, detectives said.

The unidentified man was traveling in his wheelchair in the 400 block of Cypress and began talking to a man driving a gray or silver Buick Roadmaster, said Christina Garza, spokeswoman at the sheriff’s office.

The driver of the car shot the disabled man through the passenger window, striking him in the head. A bystander sitting on her porch at a nearby residence was shot in the leg with the same bullet, Garza said.